Jacob reepmaker



(No Model.)

J. REEPMAKER.

TOY 0R PUZZLE.

No. 604,416. Patented May 24, 1898,

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB REEPMAKER, OF ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

TOY OR PUZZLE.

SEEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,416, dated May 24,1898.

Application filed May 28, 1897. Serial No. 638,663. (No model.) Patentedin England May 15, 1897, No. 12,029; in France May 20,1897,No.254,747,and in Belgium May 22,1897, No. 99,567.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB REEPMAKER, a subject of the Queen of theNetherlands, residing at 52 Westersingel, Rotterdam, Netherlands, haveinvented a new Toy or Puzzle, (for which I have received Letters Patentin Great Britain, No. 12,029, dated May 15,1897; in France, No.254:,747,dated May 20, 1897, and in Belgium, No. 99,567, dated May 22,1897,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct an apparatus which may beused as a toy or puzzle.

Now according to this invention I provide a box or other suitablereceptacle, of glass or other suitable transparent material,having anaperture in the top thereof. At the bottom of the receptacle are spacesmarked with numbers or letters, or the bottom of the receptacle may bemarked with letters, numbers, names,

pictures, or figures, and I provide as many puppets or figures as thereare numbers, letters, or spaces at the bottom of the receptacle, whichpuppets are inclosed in the box.

The object of the toy or puzzle is to place each of the puppets orfigures in an erect position on the space, letter, number, name, orpicture corresponding to that marked on or indicated by the puppets orfigures.

In order that my said invention may be fully understood, I will proceedto explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet ofdrawings, in which- Figure 1 represents the receptacle with figuresremoved. Fig. 2 is a section of same. Fig. 3 shows one of the puppets orfigures. Fig. 4 shows the piece of wood or other material for actuatingthe puppets.

The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.

a is a box or receptacle made of glass, celluloid, or other transparentmaterial. If the box is made of glass, the top, sides, and bottom may beset in a frame of wood or other suitable material, or the several piecesof glass forming thebox may be held together by means of strips ofpaper, leather, or other suitable material cemented to the glass. A

hole I] is formed in the top of the box, through which the piece of woodor other suitable material is inserted.

d d d are puppets or figures made of any suitable material and made torepresent any personages,persons,animals,orbodies. Each of these figuresis attached to or formed in one with a suitable foot, preferably oblong.

The bottom f of the box is made flat to allow the figures cl to standerect thereon and is divided into spaces, and the spaces are,

numbered to correspond with a similar numher on one of the puppets,there being as many puppets inclosed in the box as there are numberedspaces at the bottom of the box, or the bottom of the box may havepictures thereon corresponding to the puppets, or the spaces may benamed or lettered instead of numbered, or the spaces may be dispensedwith altogether and the bottom of the box simply numbered, lettered, orotherwise marked.

The object of the toy or puzzle is to place each of the puppets orfigures in an erect position on the particular space, letter, figure,picture, or number on the bottom of the box corresponding with the saidpuppets or marks thereon by means of a piece 0 of wood or other suitablematerial, which is inserted through the hole I). The ends of the piece 0may be formed in any desired shape, preferably that which will increasethe difficulty of manipulating the figures.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination in a toy or puzzle of a box or receptacle (1 having anaperture 1) in the top thereof and a bottom f divided into spaces ormarked with letters numerals pictures figures or the like, with as manypuppets or figures d as there are spaces numerals letters pictures orthe like at the bottom of the box and marked to correspond therewith,and a piece a of wood or other suitable material adapted to be insertedin the aperture b and by means of which piece each of the said puppetsor figures may be placed in an erect position on the space letter figurenumeral pic- J. REEPMAKER.

lVitnesses:

ALEX. RIDGWAY, B. J. WILDBORE.

